-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Could it be that when Whedon meets a real geek (or hacker, as in the case of those who are) they get way too fanboy and so poor Joss has never seen a real hacker through no fault of his own?
http://thomasquinlan.com/2013/10/on-meeting-joss-whedon/ On 21/11/2013 17:23, Dave Aitel wrote: > > Those of us who loved Buffy watch anything Joss Whedon puts out, > because we KNOW he's capable of genius. That said, he always has a > hacker character, and they've been getting progressively worse. > Willow is entirely believable - conflicted, dark, and at the same > time cheerfully nerdy. > > Avengers' hacker character is essentially Tony Stark, although the > flying carrier also gets hacked by an arrow - built by someone off > screen and off script. > > But in his new show, S.H.I.E.L.D., Whedon takes the hacker schtick > and makes it extra inane with a dash of confusing. For example, one > of the major plot points was his hacker character Skye coming on > board with SHIELD and then suffering the inevitable conflicts of > interest that hacker subtypes have when working for big brother. > Which COULD be a really interesting story, except it's clear that > Whedon has never met a modern hacker, but just sort of heard about > them from one of his friends who at one point read a blog post > about Julian Assange. > > In other words, it's awful. Hackers make for great TV, despite the > fact that they spend most of their time sitting in one place > staring at a screen. That's because they're as weird as it gets in > real life, and they have interesting common traits. For example, in > the show Whedon has a bracelet put on Skye which renders her unable > to use computers. But no hacker can look at anything like that > without trying to constantly fiddle with it, and probably finding a > way to take it off, as opposed to meekly submitting to it, the way > Skye does. > > http://happynicetimepeople.com/agents-shield-recap-skye-worst/ > > -dave > > > > _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing > list [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSjmNWAAoJEI8XNqYiu65CnV0IAJs9/DPzStmJK6oPh9RFmYpl wqzW3/RFtOV3QzuTadOOfsYpZNzsQaLUU9e1jpEyzR9/i1DKdLgCrEtc4xippomg SCOu36GW2Wg7fxdsovz/DG0IgOYx1iGqHBZFkeBsfyCuxBakZvKccdmerfy+yR1m vsK+8M5yJkWppVkoEVHHbG3npPap31b2jqx2zuVR5dSXWCZRmM+J7RPI99uN4f5U 70jbtHvH0GVHDLbd3dtdO4g5dYKnAhd1s/ovSvtsd0zg1ZlvA/oNujp0x5yAQVCy BuOzlOcOfM/XfyNsq0NNhiMhe30Y8NqrHwCu3P3ilEO+Byote55155WCF9Veask= =5w4J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list [email protected] https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
